Musar for Yevamot 156:16
שלישית אמר להם שמא פוסקי צדקה ברבים יש בכם ואין נותנין דכתיב (משלי כה, יד) נשיאים ורוח וגשם אין איש מתהלל במתת שקר בדקו ולא מצאו
those who are not known<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As bastards. ');"><sup>38</sup></span> do not survive; and those who are partly known and partly unknown survive for three generations but no longer. A certain man once lived in the neighbourhood of R. Ammi. and the latter made a public announcement that he was a bastard. As the other was bewailing the action,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and wept'. ');"><sup>40</sup></span>
Orchot Tzadikim
And thus we find that when there was a famine for three years in the time of David, he sought to find the sin that had caused the famine and finally discovered that because of his own conduct the famine had come (Yebamoth 78b). Therefore, in every bad happening a man should worry lest it occurred because of him.
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